Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 21:36:20 +0000 (UTC) From: Ulrich Spoerlein <uqs@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r229652 - head/sbin/recoverdisk Message-ID: <201201052136.q05LaK8C056724@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: uqs Date: Thu Jan 5 21:36:20 2012 New Revision: 229652 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/229652 Log: Document the detrimental effect of kern.cam.XX.retry_count for recoverdisk(1) recoverdisk(1) wants to know about read errors when doing the 1MB/64k reads as fast as possible so it can continue and retry them later with smaller reads (down to sector size). Any retries by lower layers will only slow it down. Prodded by: arundel Modified: head/sbin/recoverdisk/recoverdisk.1 Modified: head/sbin/recoverdisk/recoverdisk.1 ============================================================================== --- head/sbin/recoverdisk/recoverdisk.1 Thu Jan 5 21:36:12 2012 (r229651) +++ head/sbin/recoverdisk/recoverdisk.1 Thu Jan 5 21:36:20 2012 (r229652) @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd May 1, 2011 +.Dd Jan 5, 2012 .Dt RECOVERDISK 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -124,7 +124,11 @@ recoverdisk -b 0 /dev/ad3 /somewhere .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr dd 1 +.Xr dd 1 , +.Xr ada 4, +.Xr cam 4, +.Xr cd 4, +.Xr da 4 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm @@ -149,6 +153,18 @@ flying by. This is harmless and can be avoided by setting .Fl b to no more than 128kB. +.Pp +.Nm +needs to know about read errors as fast as possible, i.e. retries by lower +layers will usually slow down the operation. +When using +.Xr cam 4 +attached drives, you may want to set kern.cam.XX.retry_count to zero, e.g.: +.Bd -literal +# sysctl kern.cam.ada.retry_count=0 +# sysctl kern.cam.cd.retry_count=0 +# sysctl kern.cam.da.retry_count=0 +.Ed .\".Pp .\"When reading from optical media, a bug in the GEOM framework will .\"prevent it from seeing that the media has been removed.
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